Music- Staff Benda Bilili from Congo Introduction If disability is part of human life is it reflected in music both with musicians and the content of songs and operas? Make a list of disabled musicians from the class Band Staff…
Lloyd Coleman Sounds of Disability
As part of an Arts Council funded programme of work, Dao is engaging with freelance writers to commission opinion pieces and interviews, instigating wider debate about music and disabled musicians that creates a greater understanding of where music sits with…
Day of Action on Disability Equality in the Education System gets support across the country. Meeting very successful
A woman speaks from a platform with campaigning pictures pinned to the table she is sitting at Union leads call for action on ‘silent massacre’ of disabled staff and students 0 BY JOHN PRING ON NOVEMBER 22, 2018 EDUCATION Focus…
Ben Lunn new disabled composer Piece T4 at DaDa Fest Liverpool 28th November
Whether it’s writing protest songs or using musical instruments as part of the rehabilitation process, music and disability have historically had a complicated relationship. As a foretaste of the theme of this years’ UK Disability History Month – exploring the…
Disability News Service Report on 19th November UKDHM launch
22 November 2018 Parliamentary event recognises disabled musicians who trumped oppression A parliamentary event has recognised some of the many artists over the centuries whose talent as musicians has “trumped” the oppression they experienced as disabled people. The event was…
PCS Supports Disability History Month 2018
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Posters for UKDHM 2018-4
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Johnnie Ray 1927-1990. Hearing Impaired Pop Singer, 1950s
John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what would become rock and…
My Song the award winning drama about deaf identity and sign language
MY SONG the award winning drama about deaf identity and sign language 2011 Focusing on Signed Song About a girl who is a dancer going deaf starinf Deaf Actress Lara Steward
Mandy Harvey American Deaf Singer Songwriter
Mandy Harvey Jazz singer Mandy Harvey always had a hearing problem. In her youth, she’d had infections that affected her hearing, but only to the point that she had to sit at the front of the class in order to…